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- Packet - n. - A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters.
- Packet - n. - Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat.
- Packet - v. t. - To make up into a packet or bundle.
- Packet - v. t. - To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
- Packet - v. i. - To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
- Packeted - imp. & p. p. - of Packet
- Packeting - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Packet
- Packet - v. t. - To send in a packet or dispatch vessel.
- Boat - n. - Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class; as, the Cunard boats.
- Packet - v. i. - To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.
- Packet - n. - A small pack or package; a little bundle or parcel; as, a packet of letters.
- Screw - n. - A small packet of tobacco.
- Potpourri - n. - A jar or packet of flower leaves, perfumes, and spices, used to scent a room.
- Fusee - n. - A small packet of explosive material with wire appendages allowing it to be conveniently attached to a railroad track. It will explode with a loud report when run over by a train, and is used to provide a warning signal to the engineer.
- Packet - v. t. - To make up into a packet or bundle.
- Kutch - n. - The packet of vellum leaves in which the gold is first beaten into thin sheets.